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Golden Retriever

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closing out four years of recurring hot spots on our nine year old golden retriever where every summer was three rounds of antibiotics and shaving patches and we finally broke the cycle last summer with a stacked intervention nobody had ever presented as a complete protocol and i want to write down what actually got us out

Banjo is our 9 year old male golden retriever, 71lb, intact (not relevant to the hot spot story but listing for completeness), the dog we got after losing his predecessor at 12 to hemangiosarcoma and...

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seven years in with a field line golden retriever on a thirty acre rural property and the daily and weekly routine that actually keeps this dog physically and mentally healthy is meaningfully different from what the consumer golden retriever content describes because almost all of it is written for show line house dogs and the field line on land is a different breed of golden in functional terms

Halsten is a seven year old field line golden retriever from a small AKC field line kennel in the northeast, weighed in at sixty one pounds at his last vet visit which is lean for a male GR and is...

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